Society is like the air; necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.
Quote by George Santayana
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Society is like the air; necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.
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George Santayana Quotes
- To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.
- All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.
- An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
- Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.
- Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
- That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
- It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.
- The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.
- Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
- Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
Best Quotes
- My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest.
- Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'
- I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this it just doesn't feel right at my age.
- When I was 8 years old, I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school.
- The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.
- In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
- I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.
- Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
- Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.